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Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation > Ethics > Ethical Analysis > Wedge Argument
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Preferred term

Wedge Argument  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Slippery Slope Argument
  • Slippery Slope Arguments

Scope note

  • An assertion that an action apparently unobjectionable in itself would set in motion a train of events leading ultimately to an undesirable outcome. (From Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 1995)

History note

  • 2003

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D035761

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